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Thoughts on seed oil - DYNOMIGHT INTERNET NEWSLETTER

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A friend has spent the last three years hounding me about seed oils. Every time I thought I was safe, he’d wait a couple months and renew his attack: “When are you going to write about seed oils?” “Did you know that seed oils are why there’s so much {obesity, heart disease, diabetes, inflammation, cancer, dementia}?” “Why did you write about {meth, the death penalty, consciousness, nukes, ethylene, abortion, AI, aliens, colonoscopies, Tunnel Man, Bourdieu, Assange} when you could have written about seed oils?” “Isn’t it time to quit your silly navel-gazing and use your weird obsessive personality to make a dent in the world—by writing about seed oils?” He’d often send screenshots of people reminding each other that Corn Oil is Murder and that it’s critical that we overturn our lives to eliminate soybean/canola/sunflower/peanut oil and replace them with butter/lard/coconut/avocado/palm oil. This confused me, because on my internet, no one cares. Few have heard of these theories and thos

I've been following this debate for some time and I've landed in a similar place. My bird's eye takeaway for dietary wisdom has slowly coalesced into something like a smattering of loosely-related Rule of Thumb heuristics: 1. Don't drink your calories; instead, drink almost exclusively water 2. Eat mostly ingredients; avoid foodstuff with inscrutable origins 3. Refined carbohydrates, sugar and trans fats are on the naughty list 4. Err on the side of low-carb, err towards higher protein consumption 5. Don't eat gluten if you've got IBD (or any of the associated/adjacent conditions) 6.…

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